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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

G. K. Chesterton

The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
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Man Philosophy Secret Understand
The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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Day Deep Eyes See
Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
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Around Death Democracy Tradition Vote Walk
Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
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Failure Home Success Work Worth
It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.
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Employment Feminism Freedom Husband Ideas Woman
The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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Age Forget Gold Man
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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Art Draw Moral Sketch
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Adventure Right Wrong
Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Hope Seem
A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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Death Flow Live Stream Water
The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.
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Destiny Greatness Humanity Nation Ordinary Story
The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
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Mom Nature Ourselves Relationship Religion Sister
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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Cosmos Ego Stardom Understand
Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.
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Afraid Corruption Coward Devil Fake God Spiritual Stupidity
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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Enemy Friendship God Ourselves
Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem”.
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Avoid Goodness Requirement Virtue Wife Woman Yourself

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